This is a book club thread for fanfic One Way Or Another

taggiecb

I am starting it here.  If  you have gotten to chapter 12, start talking.

taggiecb

So I just want to start with the prolouge saying in Harry's point of veiw about being whored out at 17 to a woman who could almost be his mother.  Now I know this is a fiction, and that could very well not be what happened, but it got me right in the feels.  What if that happened.  He was so young when this started, and some of the questions he was expected to respond to in interviews just make me queasy sometimes.  Like, were these people remembering that he was only 16 or 17 years old?!?!  

And basically that has been my thought process through the book.  I know that he is 18 through this story, but it just gives such an eye opening look into what their lives might actually be like.  Not literally, but emotionally.

taggiecb

all the feels

taggiecb

Yea, I really stopped reading it in a way that makes me think of them as the people who they are now, and started reading it in the way 5 people might react in this situation.  I would be a good story even if it wasn't their characters, because really, it only lends their names, not really their personalities as much.  You can see kind of though how their relationship might have progressed in the early days through how it progressed here.  

I am really enjoying.  Maybe for the wrong reasons.  The grammar isn't bothering me.  I have been reading so many fan fics lately that I don't really notice that anymore.

taggiecb

The last something Great, I have read it many, many times.  Want a good mind fuck?  Watch the movie, or a good long interview, when you can still hear their voices in their head, then read it.  Christ, it's like they are talking in your ear.  That author nailed their voices, and personalities right on the head.  

taggiecb

Especially Zayn and Niall.  

taggiecb

I had to read something great again.  It haunted me, and the only way I could get it out of my system was to read it until I was desensitized to it.  If that makes sense.

taggiecb

I also kind of think that the author of this story is a Zayn girl, because he is the smartest, and coolest, and funniest, and has the most wisdom, and everyone one wants to be his friend.  Oh, and Liam has a crush on him, but he's totally straight.  Right.

mmdd20

I am driving to work but will come ino this later to discuss, but I just way to say that I got irrationally upset when she described Louis as wearing cargo pants, because fuck no. Louis Tomlinson does not wear cargo pants.

taggiecb

Or that Harry needs advice on what shirt to wear?  As if.

mmdd20

Ok, my thoughts...

This is only my thrid AU fic, usually I stick to the realistic ones. But I am hooked and had a hard time putting it down last night. It isn't the best written, but it is much much better than some I have read. 

I love confident, out Harry and I wish he could be like this IRL. And I freaking love Louis as a soccer player. Like, I didn't realize how much I need athlete Louis in my life until now. 

But their personalities are pretty close to how I would imagine they are in real life. As are the complexities of what it could have possibly been like to have a relationship like this at that age. It is giving me all the feels right now.

mmdd20

Have we paged @scoutkate into this yet??

wesleycrusher

It's definitely not the best written, but it's cute.  It definitely didn't give me the feels like others have.   I think it could use a strong editor, because it didn't have to be 200k+ words.  I know that I've read way shorter fics that seems longer because the plot advances faster and the writing is more complex. I mean, I'm all for a good sex scene but it doesn't need to be described every.time. 

mmdd20

wesleycrusher said:

It's definitely not the best written, but it's cute.  It definitely didn't give me the feels like others have.   I think it could use a strong editor, because it didn't have to be 200k+ words.  I know that I've read way shorter fics that seems longer because the plot advances faster and the writing is more complex. I mean, I'm all for a good sex scene but it doesn't need to be described every.time. 

Totally agree on the smut. I started skipping over it after a while.

helloblueeyes

I've read TLSG several times, i agree with taggie, i had to read it several times and get desensitized. But it really is very good and sadly very plausible. 

I'm just now getting into the AU stuff, i actually don't like it as much as the canon works oddly enough. 

I feel like Louis hiding himself because of football/soccer (oi!) is something i could actually see him doing. It's very realistic and it makes me sad. Out Harry makes me so happy though. 

They others as well are close to what i guess i picture them to be, except for Liam, he doesn't seem true to form in it. 

wesleycrusher

My first Larry fanfic was Pull Me Under, the one that @scoutkate first recommended in the OG thread. it is still my favorite. 

wesleycrusher

merie412 said:

Can someone explain wtf the prologue has to do with the rest of the story though? I've gone back and read it and I'm really just confused about how it correlates with this AU

yes same here! I thought there would be some final chapter where it came into play. 

taggiecb

I was kind of hoping that the prologue would come into play at some point, but I kind of think that it is just to show that even if they were doing this huge major thing in their life, doesn't mean that their relationship wouldn't be just as complicated.

taggiecb

Also I finished the story, and I know that we are only supposed to talk about the first half, but I legit sobbed at a point in the second half.  But at that point, I really did not associate the characters to who real people.  

Also, yea, give me the smut.  The dirtier, the better.

taggiecb

Yea, I am not digging the Ziam here at all, or lack of.  Not that I think they should hook up in the story, but I feel like the whole story line for them is weird to be honest.  

taggiecb

That was my first one.  I have it on bookmark, and TLSG.  It gives me lots of feelings.  Mostly good.  

carrotcake06

Okay, TLSG will have to be my next one. I like this one well enough, I'm only on ch 9. Yesterday wrecked me being Halloween - I was running around like an idiot from 3-9pm and just died afterwards so I didn't get as far as I'd like.

Anyway, give me ALL the smut. The rougher the better (FFC?)

taggiecb

And Then A Bit 

It was Great, almost all the Harry and Louis interaction was happy, and sweet.  There was some toe curling smut, not as smutty as this one, but still good in my opinion.

taggiecb

carrotcake06 said:

Okay, TLSG will have to be my next one. I like this one well enough, I'm only on ch 9. Yesterday wrecked me being Halloween - I was running around like an idiot from 3-9pm and just died afterwards so I didn't get as far as I'd like. Anyway, give me ALL the smut. The rougher the better (FFC?)

You are my people

taggiecb

Yea, there seems to be a lot of similarities.  Except the excessive tweeting that Harry and Louis should be doing about one another right now haha.